Today’s pupate:

BFFs

I sure do spend a lot of my week wishing it was over

Cash does have a cost

It’s a pain in the butthole tbh.

From a checkout chump perspective it was probably 40 minutes of my day wasted dealing with the cash. Getting it dispensed, double counting it all, depositing in to the safe when you had too much, watching out for dodgy currency or those dickheads who try the quick “I give you a 5 and you round up the change to 10 and then I’ll swap that for a 20 and then give you 30 so I get a 50” scam, dealing with damaged or defaced currency, recounting at end of day, getting reamed for being too far up or too far down in the count, having to sign forms to swear to god you hadn’t knocked off a pineapple (or put too many pineapples in the drawer)…

Then you need a safe storage space for the cash, security to protect the cash, literally a whole industry built on transporting it around the place, keep enough cash on hand to provide change, keep enough to cover EFT withdrawals.

There’s a lot of cost to handling cash. Also its gross. Did I mention its gross yet? Getting warm notes that were slightly sticky was disgusting.

We got a cheque book with our business banking account the better part of a decade ago now, and we’ve used 1.

When I was a checkout chump a million years ago people still occasionally brought in cheques and it meant taking copies of ID and all sorts because the dishonour ratio was too damn high.

As proved by various outages, when electricity (or the internet, or the service provider, etc) is down and prevents digital transfers being made… cash doesnt work either, cause it’s all the same POS / accounting software that handles cash which is also down.

Also if a natural disaster takes out internet access for an extended period, wheres the cash a business needs to keep on hand going to suddenly appear from? I haven’t worked in retail in a decade or more, but we always kept as little cash as possible on hand due to the constant threat of robbery. Even back then cash was way less than 50% of transactions, I’d be surprised if it was even in the double digit percentages anymore.

Cash is so gross though. All those grubby mitts all over it, plus being stored in super icky places like bras and grunderpants. Big fan of cashless if for no other reason than keeping bits of other people off me.

Actual other reasons:

• More secure to use a locked device for payment than carry cash that becomes anonymous once its removed from your person
• You cant lose digital money down the back of the couch, or drop it when getting your wallet out or whatever
• Easier for businesses to keep a track and balance sales automatically when its all digital
• Safer for staff rather than handling wads of cash, especially in places like service stations
• Harder for dodgy folk to do dodgy deals with

Seemed a weird omission not to link to it, I ended up Googling the name and checking it out that way.

Went to the German Club last night. There was pork knuckle, and beer from Steins. A few litres of beer makes you… appreciate?.. the authentic German performers in lederhosen doing a rousing rendition of Britney Spears’ Hit Me Baby One More Time.

A++ joint to spend some time at, will definitely return.

I hope this isnt another hot take on “but its a bus lol” cause I dont reckon I’ve got any patience left for any more of that.

Todays pupdate:

Naps.

God it would be good to be doing something positive and proactive for once.

I’m sick of always having the option between Option A: “world leading, best practice, transformative, long term project” and Option B: “regressive, poorly planned, guaranteed to result in private profits for a few but public debt for many” and we always end up with B. So, so many B options. Always the B.

In Queensland (Australia), the Labor (about as close to middle of the road as we get in terms of left / right policitcs) state government enacted 50c fares for public transport. Any form of public transport, any distance, 50c. Some fares used to be well over $5.00+ so for some people that meant public transport costs went from $50+ per week down to $5 a week.

It’s had a big impact to the number of people using public transport, though in the short term its still somewhat limited by availability - for example if I was to take public transport to work I’d need about three separate buses - but IMO that will get fixed as the uptake in usage results in the demand being recognised and additional buses and routes being provided to suit.

Unfortunately the Labor government was just replaced by a Liberal (capital L, “economic liberal”, right wing, conservative) government so I have no doubt we’re going to lose 50c fairs and get more toll roads instead.

Is there any possible layer of satire The Onion could add to the site to make it more of a joke though??

I just came here to say it wasn’t working, but looks like it got switched off a few days back.

I really like the old.reddit layout, so I’d be a huge fan if it was able to be used here too. No biggie if it cant, standard Lamington is pretty uncluttered anyway. Just not very compact. Whats with web devs and whitespace? I’m here to see content, not empty pixels.

Not a jeffk fan? Dammit I’m so old

I loved FrontPage. You could whip up a site in no time. The code it created was a disaster, but to be fair it worked fine.

I’d often use a WUSSYWAGON editor like FrontPage to make up a design and see how it looked, then just redo it by hand (or at least MAJORLY edit it) in Notepad so it wasn’t spaghetti.

I made a site for my dad’s business in FrontPage (then edited in Notepad) back in the very early 00s and hosted it on the 5MB of web space provided by the dialup provider at the time. It’s still there and exactly the same, though I had to move it to another provider in the late 00s when the ISP went bust. It’s gonna outlive him, and possibly me.

“People are buying cheaper, better cars 😠” complained Ford CEO Jim Farley

Although the company said “rapidly deteriorating market conditions” are to blame, global EV sales are still growing.

According to new data from Rho Motion, October was another record-breaking month for global EV sales. Global electric vehicle sales are now up 24% (13.3 million) YOY through October 2024.

Don’t blame the market, Ford. Stop making overpriced and under performing shit and people will buy your EVs.

We need a coaxial to confirm or deny, I’m an independent third party with no first hand knowledge or experience of the maxibon size affair.

I’m just here for the maxibon photos